Actinic Lights

[Ferdinand Servillon]

Hi all. Does a reef tank need actinic lights? I have 2 - T8's 5000K
overdriven 4x and 2 actinic T12's overdriven 4x also. I only have some
mushrooms, green star polyps and brown button polyps and they are all doing
great under these lights. I figure what if I just run all 5000K T8's, will
they like that better or are actinics really necessary? TIA.
Fernan

[tegu01]

The actinics generate the low spectrum light nessesary for zoothenalia
to produce nutrition for the corals. With the lighting you have a would
say you should be able to get some other soft corals and they should be
fine


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